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Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast

280 episodes - English - Latest episode: 11 days ago - ★★★★★ - 75 ratings

Presented by Matt Barr, Looking Sideways is a podcast about the best stories in skateboarding, snowboarding, surfing, and other related endeavours.

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Episode 191: Bonnie Tsui - Why We Swim

August 16, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 107 MB

A mere four years after I had Ross Edgeley on the show, I’ve finally managed to book another swimmer! Yes my guest for this episode is the great Bonnie Tsui, journalist, writer, swimmer, surfer and author of one of my favourite books of recent years - Why We Swim. It wouldn’t be possible to produce Looking Sideways without support from readers and listeners. Subscribe below to support the show As a total swim geek, I loved this book. But as well as being manna for swimmers, it is also just...

Episode 190: Stacy Peralta - Lightness of Being

July 27, 2022 18:28 - 1 hour - 97.1 MB

It wouldn’t be possible to produce Looking Sideways without support from readers and listeners. Subscribe below to support the show. Let’s start with the facts: this week’s guest Stacy Peralta is one of the most influential cultural figures in our corner of the world. If you’ve stood sideways on any craft - hell, even if you’ve listened to my podcast - you’ve been influenced by Stacy, whether you realise it or not. Even my weird little career, on an extremely minor level, is following a t...

Type 2: Episode 025 - Rebecca Olive

July 13, 2022 13:42 - 1 hour - 83.9 MB

“My approach to activism is to not be too ‘shouty’. Instead, it’s how can I bring someone along with me? I try in my writing to be even more gentle than I feel, because I want people to be willing to listen to me.” Type 2 is my podcast in association with Patagonia that explores the intersection between the outdoors, action sports and activism. This week’s guest is surfer, swimmer and academic Rebecca Olive, a Senior Research Fellow at the School of Global, Urban & Social Studies at RMIT U...

Episode 189: Kepa Acero - Reborn

July 05, 2022 19:01 - 1 hour - 85.5 MB

It wouldn’t be possible to produce Looking Sideways without support from readers and listeners. Subscribe below to support the show. Kepa Acero is one of modern surfing’s most intriguing and beloved characters. Why? Because there’s just something irresistible about people who are completely comfortable in their own skin and who take life on their own terms. That’s definitely the case with Kepa, and it comes across in everything he does, which is why I think people genuinely seem to love a...

Episode 188: Christa Funk - Wave of Acceptance

June 28, 2022 14:39 - 1 hour

Full episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.com Episode 2 of my Hossegor omnibus in association with Db! And my guest for this instalment is Christa Funk, a swimmer, surfer, coastguard and photographer who has very quickly established herself as one of the most creative and formidable photographers on the North Shore, capturing that none-more-heavy scene with a beguiling blend of dynamism, grace and beauty. She’s also got a hell of a story about how she made this happen. As regul...

Episode 187: Tim Myers - Human Interest

June 21, 2022 07:24 - 1 hour

Full episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.com My guest this week is Tim Myers, an award-winning and renowned cameraman, cinematographer, journalist and storyteller who has carved out an extremely interesting career for himself telling human interest stories as a freelance gun for hire for people like the BBC, CNN and the UN. There’s a chance you might unwittingly be familiar with Tim and his work - he achieved some internet notoriety a couple of years ago when he was attacked ...

Type 2: Episode 024 - Adam Hall

June 07, 2022 23:00 - 59 minutes

Type 2 is a podcast from Looking Sideways in association with Patagonia that explores the intersection between the outdoors, action sports and activism. This week’s guest is a surfer and activist Adam Hall. He’s Head of Sustainability for Surfdome, a trustee for POW UK, and is part of the team that just successfully ran the campaign to have the North Devon coastline designated one of only 12 World Surfing Reserves in the world, putting this much loved corner of the British surf world on a pa...

Episode 186: Wig Worland - On The Road Again

June 02, 2022 21:38 - 1 hour

Full episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.com This week’s guest is photographer Wig Worland, one of the most respected and influential people in the history of UK skateboarding. I’ve known Wig on and off since the 90s. Looking back, we were all a little bit in awe at his complete understanding of who he was as a person, and how single-mindedly he approached his craft and self-appointed task. Indeed, as my old pal Phil Young said, when I told him I’d finally persuaded Wig to co...

Episode 185: Mikey Corker - Savage Waters

May 23, 2022 09:22 - 1 hour

Full episodes info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.com There are many layers to this week’s conversation with surfer, director, film-maker, producer, creative and all-round legend Mikey Corker. On the one hand, it’s about this latest project Savage Waters, a surf film in the finest classical, questing tradition. It’s about how Mikey and a crew of similarly-driven and passionate people have spent years abroad Matt Knight’s yacht Hecate, on the hunt for a mythical wave, and the adv...

Episode 184: Ewan Wallace - The Joy of Friendship

May 10, 2022 18:46 - 1 hour

Full episodes info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.com Is there anything better than catching up with an old friend after a long break, and picking up exactly where you left off? I think not - which is why my latest with Ewan Wallace is a paean to the joys of close friendship. Ewan is a snowboarder and musician (he’s guitarist with Bonobo and Karmic) who is also one of my oldest and closest friends. I spent the most formative years of my life with Ewan; 15 years snowboarding, tr...

Episode 183: Shaun Tomson - The Light Shines Ahead

May 01, 2022 11:55 - 1 hour

Full episodes info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.com Let’s get straight to it - I’ve got one of surfing’s all-time great legends on the show this week. Along with peers like Ian Cairns, Rabbit and MR, 1977 World Champion Shaun Thomson helped to redefine surfing over the course of one of THE most influential careers of them all. He changed the game in ways we all continue to benefit from today. Then there are his off-the-water contributions, which are as progressive and game-cha...

Episode 182: Lesley, Lauren and Hannah - Triumvirate

April 22, 2022 06:39 - 1 hour

Full episodes info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.com When does cultural guardianship become another form of toxic gatekeeping? How can you connect your own personal take on activism with the bigger themes? How can ski touring and splitboarding be a vehicle to increased creativity and self-awareness? And just why is Scotland one of the most unique places to ride a snowboard in the world? All topics covered in this week’s episode with Lesley McKenna, Hannah Bailey and Lauren MacC...

Episode 181: Pat Bridges - The Eye

April 14, 2022 08:03 - 1 hour

Full episodes info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.com Sound the geek klaxon! Yep, this week’s conversation with legit US snowboarding legend Pat ‘the eYe’ bridges goes deep, deep down the snowboarding rabbit hole. I go back a long way with Pat - around twenty years, in fact. I used to write for him back when he was editor of Snowboarder Magazine, which was around when we first met. Over the years, we stayed in touch and continued to bump into each other at various events aroun...

Episode 180: Neil Macdonald - Science Versus Life

April 05, 2022 09:51 - 1 hour

Full episodes info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.com To say that Neil McDonald is interested in skate history is a little like saying Capability Brown liked to dabble in the odd bit of gardening. Neil is a journalist, author, curator and archivist who is obsessed, to an awe-inspiring degree, with the tales and intricacies of skate history. It’s a fascination he explores through his essential Science Versus Life Instagram account, and which he is developing on the grandest pos...

Episode 179: Yvette Curtis - Good Trouble

March 17, 2022 21:35 - 1 hour

Full episodes info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.com This week’s guest Yvette Curtis runs the amazing Wave Wahines, the women and girls only surf club through which she is on a mission to make surfing in the UK more accessible for women and girls from all cultures and ethnic communities. I think the reason I’m such a fan of Yvette’s work, and why I was so keen to chat to her for the podcast, is that it’s a story of how one person can impact the grassroots by the works they do. ...

Episode 178: Hana Beaman - High Beams

March 10, 2022 10:03 - 1 hour

Full episodes info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.com Jackson x Natural Selection omnibus special! Succeeding in any kind of career as a professional athlete is tough. Cultivating a career that lasts close to two decades? Pretty much impossible. In snowboarding, it’s a rarified feat that only a handful have managed. Those that have accomplished it have navigated ups, downs, injuries, sponsorship vagaries, trends, and everything else that life can throw at you. This week’s gues...

Type 2: Episode 023 - Martin 'MJ' Johnson

March 07, 2022 19:11 - 1 hour

Type 2 is a podcast from Looking Sideways in association with Patagonia that explores the intersection between the outdoors, action sports and activism. This week’s guest is runner and activist Martin ‘MJ’ Johnson. Martin is a trail runner and father who, in Run to the Source, his new collaboration with Patagonia, has made a truly thought-provoking film. Run to the Source follows Martin’s attempt to set a new Fastest Known Time (or FKT, as it’s known) along the Thames Path, which he eventu...

Episode 177: Dr. Tony Butt - On The Frontier

February 19, 2022 09:57 - 1 hour

Full episodes info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.com He’ll hate me for saying it. But Dr. Tony Butt, this week’s guest, is one of UK surfing’s bone fide big wave legends. As Nathan Carter put it in a recent interview for Wavelength Magazine, Tony is ‘probably the British big wave surfer with the most giant paddle waves under his belt’. Not that you would realise this if you used Tony’s media profile as an indicator. In a world of instant edits and Insta surf porn, Tony flies gl...

Type 2: Episode 022 - Marie-France Roy

February 11, 2022 00:00 - 58 minutes

Type 2 is a podcast from Looking Sideways in association with Patagonia that explores the intersection between the outdoors, action sports and activism My guest for this episode of the podcast is professional snowboarder and activist Marie-France Roy, who I chatted to during my recent trip to Jackson Hole for the first leg of the Natural Selection Tour. Marie is that rare thing: somebody who is using their platform to try and instigate change on both the personal and wider level. As a snow...

Episode 176: Travis Rice - Debrief

February 04, 2022 06:19 - 58 minutes

Full episodes info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.com Jackson x Natural Selection omnibus special! Yep, myself and my right-hand man Owen Tozer are on our first podcast trip of the Covid era. We’ve been in Jackson Hole for the first stop of the Natural Selection Tour, and have taken the opportunity to record as many episodes as we can with people involved in the event, from Jackson, or from the wider snowboarding community. This series continues with this conversation with th...

Episode 175: Sandy Macdonald - The View From The Booth

February 02, 2022 18:48 - 52 minutes

Jackson x Natural Selection omnibus special! Yep, myself and my right-hand man Owen Tozer are on our first podcast trip of the Covid era. We’ve been in Jackson Hole for the first stop of the Natural Selection Tour, and have taken the opportunity to record as many episodes as we could with people involved in the event, from Jackson, or from the wider snowboarding community. Continuing with this conversation with judge Sandy Macdonald. One of the things I’ve been trying to do while out here...

Episode 174: Tom Monterosso - Birdman

January 31, 2022 17:49 - 1 hour

Full episodes info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.com Jackson x Natural Selection omnibus special!  Yep, myself and my right-hand man and creative collaborator Owen Tozer are on our first trip of the Covid era and what a joyous, life-affirming experience it has been. We’ve been in Jackson Hole for the first stop of the Natural Selection Tour, and have taken the opportunity to record as many episodes as we could with people involved in the event or from the wider snowboarding com...

Episode 173: Lyndsay McLaren - Welcome to the Neighbourhood

January 20, 2022 16:12 - 1 hour

Full episodes info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.com How can you find the strength to turn traumatic experiences that have affected you deeply into something that has the power to transform your own community? How do you bypass the toxic gatekeepers who still control the routes and paths into the industry? And how can you feed the latent appetite for alternative narratives that exists yet is shamefully under-served in our world? All themes that feature in my conversation with t...

Episode 172: Danny Davis - Travellin' Dan

January 13, 2022 18:41 - 1 hour

Full episodes info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.com If you’re a snowboarder, Danny Davis really needs no introduction. He’s widely regarded as one of the greatest riders of all time, and is still going strong two decades into one of the most storied careers in competitive snowboarding. But there’s more to Danny than this quick thumbnail sketch. Because, in a world of ever-increasing progression for its own sake, Danny stands for something. He’s a symbol of the creativity that...

Episode 171: Sam Bleakley - The Dance of Things

January 07, 2022 17:47 - 1 hour

Full episodes info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.com Think of this conversation with Cornish surfer Sam Bleakley as a companion piece to the extremely popular Dylan Graves episode from a few weeks back. Why? Because here we have another amazing surfer using their talent and platform in Jan in an infinitely more interesting way than most other professional surfers. Sam’s case is particularly interesting because he has managed to find a way to combine his two major passions - geo...

Episode 170: Tim and Gendle - Xmas Special

December 23, 2021 13:58 - 2 hours

Full episodes info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.com Festive Special! Yep, as is now very much tradition in the Looking Sideways universe, for this special Christmas episode I was joined by my old pals Tim and Gendle for our fourth mince pie, Secret Santa and booze-filled yuletide jamboree. Now, if you’ve listened to any of these episodes before, you’ll know what to expect - although this year, I’m happy to report, we managed to juggle schedule and beat the rapidly-approach...

TYPE 2: Episode 021 - Brix Schaumburg

December 15, 2021 13:16 - 59 minutes

Type 2 is a podcast from Looking Sideways in association with Patagonia that explores the intersection between the outdoors, action sports and activism. This week’s guest is actor, musician, performer, podcast host and trans activist Brix Schaumburg. As Germany’s most high profile trans actor, Brix has become something of a focal point for the conversation around trans rights and issues of gender. This scenario has led him to a form of gently provocative activism, in which he has used his pl...

Episode 169: Dylan Graves - Curiosity Seeker

December 02, 2021 15:38 - 1 hour

Full episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.com This week’s guest Dylan Graves has managed something that sounds simple but is actually really very difficult when it comes to surf, skate and snow film-making - coming up with a simple idea that manages to convey the stoke of the entire business while also telling a repeatedly compelling story. If you don’t know Dylan, he is a professional surfer from Puerto Rico and the host of a YouTube show called Weird Waves, which for my mone...

Episode 168: Jon Taylor - MJT

November 23, 2021 17:55 - 1 hour

Full episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.com Welcome to an absolute throwback of an interview in the finest Looking Sideways tradition. Yep, if you liked my recent chat with Ben Powell, for example, you’re going to enjoy this conversation with BMX legend ‘Mad’ Jon Taylor. For a start, it was face-to-face, which was such a laugh and something I’ve missed more than I’ve realised. Secondly, there’s the fact that this is a riotous look at the life and times of one of the most bel...

Episode 167: Dani Kiwi Meier - Life Is What Happens

November 15, 2021 17:32 - 1 hour

Full episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.com Is experience a prerequisite for knowledge? How can you use the lessons of life to strive for equanimity? Is it possible to avoid taking life personally? Should we let our curiosity guide our decision-making? How can we put story-telling at the centre of what we do? Is life about taking or giving back? These are the questions we all grapple with at some point during our lives, however unwittingly. And, as I realised at the end of o...

Episode 166: Ollie Percovich - I Hear A New World

November 05, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour

Full episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.com My guest this week is Skateistan founder Ollie Percovich, who I welcomed back for his second appearance on the show. I first chatted to Ollie in May 2018 in the dim, distant pre-Covid era, and in the intervening months it’s fair to say much has changed for Ollie and the community he’s spent so long establishing. The first event was, obviously, Covid, which understandably had a huge impact on a none-profit with operations and staff...

TYPE 2: Episode 020 - Shannon Galpin

November 02, 2021 09:51 - 1 hour

Type 2 is a podcast from Looking Sideways in association with Patagonia that explores the intersection between the outdoors, action sports and activism. My guest for this episode of Type 2 is Shannon Galpin an explorer, writer, journalist, artist and global activist known primarily for her work on climate action and women’s rights. I first became aware of Shannon through her long-running work in Afghanistan, where she has been involved with womens’ rights projects for over a decade now. Sh...

TYPE 2: Episode 020 - Shannon Galpin

November 02, 2021 09:51 - 70.1 MB

Type 2 is a podcast from Looking Sideways in association with Patagonia that explores the intersection between the outdoors, action sports and activism. My guest for this episode of Type 2 is Shannon Galpin an explorer, writer, journalist, artist and global activist known primarily for her work on climate action and women’s rights. I first became aware of Shannon through her long-running work in Afghanistan, where she has been involved with womens’ rights projects for over a decade now. Sh...

Bonus Episode: Chris Hines

October 18, 2021 19:29 - 57 minutes

Chris Hines bonus episode! Chris is a surfer and activist best known for being one of the original driving forces behind the original incarnation of Surfers Against Sewage. Today he enjoys a reputation as one of the most respected and successful communicators in British environmentalism. This is actually my third conversation with Chris after his initial appearance on Type 2 was followed by our Instagram Live conversation last year. This one came about when I was asked to create and run ...

Episode 165: Torren Martyn - Lost Track

October 08, 2021 13:07 - 1 hour

Full episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.com This week’s guest Torren Martyn is probably the most individual, interesting and certainly most celebrated surfer in the world right now. Draw a Venn diagram of all the modern-day talking points in surf culture - board length, style, the craving for some substance among a world of throwaway edits - and Torren would be right at the centre. As 2021 dawned, Torren’s lazy, lanky style and mastery of the less-than-obvious board length ...

Episode 164: Sue Izzo - Rebirth

September 30, 2021 12:22 - 1 hour

Full episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.com My ‘lifer’ episodes, in which I interview somebody without the profile of my more famous guests, but who nevertheless has dedicated their life to the culture with similar dedication (and, in many cases, has had a similar influence), are always among the most beloved Looking Sideways episodes. And in this episode with action sports agent and business coach Sue Izzo, I’m not afraid to say we have an instant lifer classic. Of course, ...

Episode 163: Ben Powell - Breaking The Fourth Wall

September 15, 2021 11:11 - 2 hours

Full episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.com I first asked Ben Powell to be a guest on the show back in 2017. In the end, it has taken almost five years of chipping away to get him to agree, and this week’s sprawling conversation is the result. Why was I so bloody-minded about getting Ben on the show? Because I challenge you to find anybody who has made a bigger impact on skate culture in this country over the last 30 years. Sure, Ben will cringe to his very fingertips at t...

Episode 162: Lesley McKenna -

August 27, 2021 11:07 - 64.9 MB

Full episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.com On this week’s episode I welcomed the great Lesley McKenna back to the show for her second visit, a mere four years after her first appearance in June 2017. If you don’t know Lesley, she’s a snowboarder and Olympian who is, to my mind, one of the most original and quietly influential thinkers in action sports. Lesley was actually my first ever female guest, and in the intervening years a lot has changed - and not just for the my hu...

Episode 162: Lesley McKenna - New Frontiers

August 27, 2021 11:07 - 1 hour

Full episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.com On this week’s episode I welcomed the great Lesley McKenna back to the show for her second visit, a mere four years after her first appearance in June 2017. If you don’t know Lesley, she’s a snowboarder and Olympian who is, to my mind, one of the most original and quietly influential thinkers in action sports. Lesley was actually my first ever female guest, and in the intervening years a lot has changed - and not just for the my hu...

Episode 161: Joe Taylor - Water Therapy

August 18, 2021 12:27 - 1 hour

Full episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.com These days, the notion of water therapy is fairly well mainstream. Think ‘blue mind’ theory, and the sheer number of Instagram account and Guardian articles extolling the virtues of cold showers and cold water swimming. But back in 2011, when this week’s guest Joe Taylor set up The Wave Project, it was rather less well known. As you might imagine, the story of Joe’s quixotic quest to establish the Wave Project is a fascinating one,...

TYPE 2: Episode 019 - Rob Hopkins

August 05, 2021 12:32 - 59 minutes

Type 2 is a podcast from Looking Sideways in association with Patagonia that explores the intersection between the outdoors, action sports and activism. My guest for this episode of Type 2 is Rob Hopkins, a ridiculously prolific UK-based activist, author, podcaster, lecturer and environmentalist who describes himself as a ‘champion of the collective imagination’. There are many lessons and insights in this chat, but two themes predominate - the power of local movements to lead to wider, soc...

Episode 160: Cairo Foster - Homecoming

July 20, 2021 12:09 - 1 hour

Full episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.com Street skating legend Cairo Foster is well over two decades into a singular and iconic career. Think ‘two episodes of The Nine Club’ iconic. So when he got in touch to see if I’d be up for having a chat to commemorate the release of his new Actions REALized board, a collaboration between Real Skateboards in memory of Ben Raemers, with all proceeds going to The Ben Raemers Foundation, I was of course up for it. Especially because th...

Episode 159: Trevor Graves - Eyewitness

July 13, 2021 16:16 - 1 hour

Full episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.com Get ready for a trip through snowboarding history with somebody who, over two decades, had a ringside seat as snowboarding evolved from the domain of backyard tinkerers into the global super-sport it is today: legendary US snowboard photography legend Trevor Graves. Trevor is one of those first generation riders whose career perfectly mirrors the key developments of snowboarding history. Even more importantly, he documented it all,...

Episode 158: Lucy Small - Saltwater Pilgrim

July 06, 2021 14:52 - 1 hour

Full episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.com Earlier this year, Australian surfer Lucy Small found herself at the centre of a genuine viral moment. If you follow surf media, you probably saw it. It happened when, after winning a surf contest in Sydney, she noticed her winnings were less than half of that of her male counterpart. Now in these situations, obviously, it’s easier to keep quiet. But on this occasion, Lucy decided to speak out and draw attention to this latest exam...

Episode 157: Henry Jackson - My Job Is Weirder Than Yours

June 24, 2021 11:01 - 1 hour

Full episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.com I’ve covered plenty of people with unusual jobs on this podcast. Hell, my gig is pretty bloody weird. But this week’s guest Henry Jackson’s job is so unusual that it’s become the basis of a catchphrase - ‘My job is weirder than yours.’⁣ ⁣ So what does Henry do? He’s an MC, a commentator, a broadcaster - a ‘professional shit talker’ as he puts it. ⁣ ⁣ But the truth is that Henry is one of the most interesting, unique and compelling co...

TYPE 2: Episode 018 - Sean Doherty

June 18, 2021 15:47 - 1 hour

Type 2 is a podcast from Looking Sideways in association with Patagonia that explores the intersection between the outdoors, action sports and activism. This week’s guest is Sean Doherty - a journalist, writer, editor and activist who has been one of the key voices in the Australian surf industry for the last twenty years. In a way the path of Sean’s own career reflects the shift that has occurred in the industry in the period since since the early 2000s glory years, when he came to promin...

Episode 156: Sally McGee - Yonder

June 10, 2021 16:02 - 1 hour

After an unscheduled and very welcome month off, I’m back. This chat with Sally McGee from Yonder has been a long time coming, and is very much by public demand. As my followers on Instagram will know, I frequently run polls to ask listeners who I should speak to for future episodes. And after a while I noticed something: among the usual suspects like Hawk and Slater, one name kept popping up over and over again - Sally from Yonder. I did some digging and quickly came to understand why. ...

Episode 155: Leo Sharp - For The Culture

May 15, 2021 12:53 - 1 hour

Full episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.com Anybody deciding to start a print magazine in the current climate has to be applauded and supported for their sheer creative bloody-mindedness. ⁣ ⁣ That’s why the launch of The Skateboarder’s Companion, the new UK skate magazine set up by this week’s guest Leo Sharp and his fellow UK skate lifers Ryan Gray and Matt Law, is such an important moment. It might not sound like much, but the simple act of walking into a newsagent or skate ...

Bonus Episode: Lauren MacCallum

May 06, 2021 06:52 - 1 hour

Lauren McCallum Bonus Episode! If I have one major regret in the four years I’ve been doing the podcast, it’s around the way I handled the topic of Terje Haakonsen’s history of homophobia in my conversation with him for episode 121. The feedback I received from some listeners, who felt like my deliberate editorial approach was alienating, made it clear to me that I still have much work to do when it comes to shepherding these conversations in the right way.  This is also why I found the de...

Episode 154: Mike Guest - Dawn Days

April 28, 2021 15:35 - 1 hour

I’m a big believer in the right idea at the right time. And Dawn Days, the early morning ritual started by friends Mike Guest and Nick Pumphrey at the beginning of the pandemic in spring 2020, is a great example of this principle in action. Like all good ideas, this simple concept soon took off; in this case becoming an online movement as more and more people from around the world began to document their own early morning experiences. Soon - perhaps because of the timing of the whole thin...

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